About OpenFrame

From film lovers, to film lovers across the world.

OpenFrame Studio is one app for the whole film, made for people who make films with limited resources.

What it is for

A film often starts as scattered notes and ends as a pile of separate files. OpenFrame Studio keeps the whole path in one project: first idea, story, screenplay, breakdown, schedule, call sheets and a light budget.

Who it is for

Writers, screenwriters and production teams, especially people who make films with limited resources. There is one app for everyone and no separate editions.

The founders

Two founding engineers.

One turns the film-making journey into a product. The other turns that product into software you can trust with your work.

Technical Founding Engineer

Saravan Kumar M K

Saravan Kumar M K is responsible for the end-to-end technical implementation of OpenFrame Studio. The product design described how a film should move from idea to call sheet; the work was to engineer that design into real software, screen by screen, until every workflow ran on both Windows and the Mac.

Saravan built the single engine that holds every project and is shared by the Windows app and the native Mac app, so a project behaves exactly the same on both. Your work saves as you go, survives a crash, and can be undone, restored from Recently Deleted or carried away as a backup, while scripts from Final Draft, Fountain and Word come in with a preview before anything is changed for good.

Saravan also built OpenFrame AI to run entirely on your own computer, and made sure it earns its place: it works without the internet, shows where every answer comes from and changes nothing until you press Apply. Every screen of both apps is tested from end to end, so what you see on this site is exactly what the app does when you use it.

Product Founding Engineer

Badrinath Reddy A

Badrinath Reddy A is responsible for the product idea, the ideation, the product design and the product direction of OpenFrame Studio. It all began with a simple question: why should a small film team pay for, set up and keep moving work between five separate tools when one app could hold a whole film?

From that idea came the journey the product follows: ideas collected in the Idea Vault, shaped on the Beat Board, written as a screenplay, then broken down, scheduled and turned into call sheets, with each step reusing what the step before it made. Badrinath designed how each workspace is laid out and how a single scene heading flows on through the breakdown, the schedule and the call sheet.

Badrinath chose who OpenFrame serves first: writer-directors, student filmmakers, short-film makers and regional-language filmmakers writing in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and English. Badrinath also set the promises it keeps: your work stays on your computer, nothing changes without your say, and you buy it once, not monthly.

Your idea. Your film. Our promise.

Your work is yours

It lives on your computer. No OpenFrame account, no cloud service, no telemetry.

You stay in charge

OpenFrame AI only suggests. Nothing changes until you choose Apply.

No lock-in

Standard formats in, standard formats out. Back up and move your whole project any time.

Ready when you are

Try it free for 7 days. Pay once if you keep it.

One app for the whole film, on your own computer. One payment, no subscription.